Oil paintings play an important role in the wall decoration of a house; they display the touch and taste in the best way. The decorative oil paintings mentioned here are the 100% hand-painted reproductions or original created oils on canvases instead of printed or emulational pieces. According to my experience, when it comes to the design and placement of decorative oil paintings, below points are to be considered.

The Limitation of the Special Function
While the room function decides its usages, the integrated beauty of indoor design can be defined as the coalescent of room function, its usage and the decorative art. In bedrooms, you can use the oil paintings with subject of people or related subjects; in children's bedrooms, abstract oil paintings of children subjects will be compatible; in living rooms, landscape oil paintings will make you feel the room is wider and more lucid; in dinning rooms, oil paintings of still life like fruit and flowers will help with your appetite.

Unification of Decorative Style
The style of different parts of the room shall be in line with and submitted to the overall manner. An appropriate oil painting in harmony with the whole indoor setting will bring excellent effect. For example, the succinctness of abstract and realistic oil paintings enables them to fit the open and bright rooms with new styles and original materials; true-life and classical oil paintings will fit the room style of luxury and elegance; impressional oil paintings are best décor for corridors and bookcases, they incarnate the gorgeous color and splendid light.

Communication between Colors
Suitable oil paintings bring excellent decorative effect to a room. Oil paintings with contrasted colors are suitable for vivid-colored rooms; similarly, quiet and elegant rooms need oils with bland and soft color. The decorativeness will be displayed to a greater extend if the color of the oil paintings and the room color are in contrast. Still, the color of the oil paintings shall match the furniture and other decorations, these colors should be in a same tune.

The Season, Environment and Climate
Canty oil paintings with vivid colors are suitable for areas with heavy humidity; while dry areas shall use "wetter" oil paintings. In winter, it's better to choose colorful oil paintings; in summer, gentle and peaceful oil paintings will be more comfortable.

The Placement of Decorative Oil Paintings
How to place your oil paintings in a proper way? Generally, you can get a good effect by placing your oil painting 1.5-2 meters high from the floor. Try to make sure the light come from the left side of the top, which is the same with the situation when the painter painted it. Do not use glass. The size of the frame and the picture should be fixed according to the proportion; besides, the frame color should match the furniture color or the colors of the painting itself. The rule of golden section point will help you decide the best place for the oil painting.

If possible, you can consider decorating and investing at the same time
Actually, original oil paintings are a good kind of collections. It's a firm investment, and you can get proceeds in a relatively short time. Collecting original oil paintings is also an embodiment of status, class, taste and culture. If under recommendation of an expert, you choose an oil painting with potential of increasing in value, congratulations, you are killing two birds with one stone!